Rain barrels
Strata 528919
The smallest butt here and the most complete — tap, lockable lid, four-part stand and a downpipe kit.
The only complete set here
Five feature lines, and all five are contents:
Includes the butt. Includes the tap. Includes a lockable lid. Includes a
four-part stand. Includes a rain collector kit.
That is a listing with no specifications in it at all, and it is nonetheless the
most useful listing on this shelf, because those four items are exactly what
everything else here makes you buy separately.
The stand, which is the problem this shelf has
Every water butt in this family shares one flaw, and almost none of them
mentions it.
A full watering can is 30 to 35 cm tall, and it needs clearance above that
to be lifted out.
A tap near the base of a butt standing on the ground gives you a bucket on its
side and a wet sleeve.
The answers found across this shelf are: drill your own hole and choose the
height; two outlets, one raised for a can and one at the floor to drain; two
threaded bosses at 10 cm and one at 38 cm; stand it on blocks.
This one puts a stand in the box, which is the version that requires no
decision, no drilling and no masonry.
36 × 32 cm
The footprint, and it is the smallest on this shelf by a long way.
That is 0.115 m² — less ground than a kitchen bin — and 100 litres over it
works out at about 868 litres per square metre, which is better than the two
round butts on this shelf despite being the smallest tank here.
It is also 96 cm tall, which is the trade: to be narrow at the base and hold 100
litres it has to be tall, and a tall narrow tank full of water wants to be
against something.
The lockable lid
The only one mentioned on this shelf, and worth a paragraph.
An open water butt is an unfenced container of water at the height of a
toddler’s chest. That is the serious reason.
The everyday reasons are leaves, which rot and turn the water black; algae,
which grows in any light; and mosquitoes, which breed in standing water and need
only a gap.
A lid that latches handles all four. The rest of this shelf either has a
removable lid or does not say.
100 litres, honestly
It is the smallest capacity here, and the shelf goes to 450.
In a dry July, 100 litres is a couple of proper waterings for a patio’s worth of
pots. It will be empty, and then it will refill in the next shower — which is
the real pattern for a small butt: it cycles.
What it does not do is carry you through a fortnight without rain, and that is
what the 300- and 450-litre tanks on this shelf are for.
About 0.51 € per litre
At the German price recorded here.
Across this shelf the range is about 0.25 € to 0.56 € per litre, so this is near
the top — and it is the only figure at the top that includes a stand, a
collector and a latching lid.
A cheaper butt plus a stand plus a collector kit is not obviously cheaper, and
it is three purchases.
What goes unpublished
No material beyond “plastic”. No weight. No roof area — one product
on this shelf publishes one, up to 50 m², and it is the figure that tells you
how fast a butt fills.
And no frost guidance, which applies to everything here: water expands when
it freezes, and a butt left full through a hard winter bulges or splits. A
100-litre butt is light enough to tip out in a minute.
Availability
Around 51 €, read at the German Amazon store on the day of the survey.
Beyond the euro zone, the British Amazon store prices it in its own currency, which the spread above sets aside.
Listed and unsold: the American, French, Italian and Spanish Amazon catalogues hold the reference with nobody behind it.
Taken from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and prices move without notice.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 26 September 2026. The live price is at the top of the page.
